and more as a powerful nonstate actor. this is a company in all the history of the world, nothing quite like it has ever existed before. and at this moment, as a society, the american society as we think about this and try to get our arms around it at the advent of the age of artificial intelligence, where there will be more innovation over the next 20 years than there was over the last 20 years, in this age of rapid technological transition, facebook opens the door to a bevy of issues and questions that a society, as parents we have to reckon with, particularly one that values free speech. because this cannot be the instrument and the vehicle of our poisoning. monica bicker was asked a
out to get them and that there s nothing they can do right, so they might as well just sort of heads down, keep working on a product that so many people rely on. well, it sounds like they at least now have congress s attention as well as all of ours. thanks in part to this whistle-blower. so, deepa seetharaman and dr. lisa strohman, thank you very much for the conversation. in the next hour, we will speak to a facebook executive, monica bicker, to get the company s response and hers to all this. meanwhile, 13 days left until the u.s. crashes through the debt ceiling. surely our lawmakers won t let that happen, right? right? we ll see. 13 days. and president biden is taking his agenda on the road, making his pitch in a swing district. we ll take you to michigan next.
out for something more and substantial. i suspect it s a pretty big debate. let me play one more sound byte from monica bicker who is the facebook executive. we re certainly cooperating with the ongoing investigations but i will say we know that a lot of false news and a lot of what we saw around the 2016 election came from fake accounts and these are the sorts of accounts that we are investing in technology to get better at detecting. this speaks to your point which is to some extent we re in unchartered territory because we ve never seen this type of infiltration and because facebook is still in the scope of things relatively new particularly when it comes to this type of election meddling. i think one really telling thing is zuckerberg s new year s resolution. i m going to learn man da rein. this year, interestingly it was basically a resolution to do his job, to address all of these issues.